Label: BMG Music (Austria), PD49409
Style: Glam Metal, Hard Rock
Country: London, England (September 19, 1958)
Time: 13:20
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 103 Mb
“Close
My Eyes Forever,” the powerful duet between Lita Ford and Ozzy Osbourne
released in 1989, gave each artist their first Top 10 song on the
Billboard Hot 100 chart. In the wake of Ozzy’s passing on Tuesday (July
22nd), Ford said that the metal icon changed her life.
Ford checked
in with SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk the day after Ozzy’s
death (as transcribed by Blabbermouth), telling the host, “He changed my
life, from the time I was 13 years old going to [a] Black Sabbath
concert. That was it. That was the day and the night the light bulb went
off over my head, and I just thought, ‘I have to do this. This is what I
wanna do…. And so that night I came out of there, and I knew what I was
gonna do with my future.”
As for the hit duet, Ford noted, “It’s
just really ironic that I got to have a Top 10 hit single with Ozzy. And
I have to say it was one of the highlights of my life. And we will all
miss him, but his music will live on. And that’s what we have to do, is
just focus on the music and all the good things that he’s left
everybody.”
She added, “And I’m sure he would’ve probably been gone a
long time ago if not for [his wife and manager] Sharon. I mean, Sharon
was the best, and she took good care of Ozzy, and so she kept him going
and she made him into the superstar that he is today.”
Just weeks prior to his passing, Ozzy had declared that “Close My Eyes Forever” was the best duet he had ever recorded.
At
her concert at KK’s Steel Mill in Wolverhampton, England, on Wednesday,
Ford dedicated “Close My Eyes Forever” to Ozzy, asking fans to hold
their phone lights up in honor of the metal legend.
(consequence.net/2025/07/lita-ford-honors-ozzy-osbourne/)
01. Close My Eyes Forever (Remix) (04:44)
02. Under The Gun (04:50)
03. Blueberry (03:46)
